Musée D’Orsay : Art in a Train Station

How a former train station turned into one of the most visited museums in Paris

Carte postale ancienne éditée par LD
Paris — La nouvelle gare d’Orléans — public domain

We were in 1900, the city of Paris hosted the Universal Exhibition, which was at the time the showcase of a country. The idea was to show that the country was at the top level in terms of industrial, technical, and technological advances, especially in the context of…